Law and history in Cervante's Don Quixote
- ISBN: 9781442626409
- Editorial: University of Toronto Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2014
- Lugar de la edición: Toronto. Canadá
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 256
- Idiomas: Inglés
Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era -- those of law and history -- into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel.Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes' sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.